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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Updated Jan. 23, 2001 2:26 a.m. ET

Ms. Macapagal-Arroyo was sworn in on Saturday by Chief Justice Hilario Davide, becoming the nation's 14th president and second female president.

She was elected vice president in 1998 under President Joseph Estrada, but resigned on Oct. 12 following allegations of the president's involvement in the gambling scandal that ultimately led to his demise. She is the head of an opposition group, the People's Power-National Union of Christian Democrats Party, which increasingly called for Mr. Estrada's resignation in recent weeks....